PAUL ABLEMAN (1927 - 2006)

Paul ableman was born June 13, 1927, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, died 25 October 2006. In 1958, his first novel, I HEaR VOICES, was published in Paris, then later in England, where it received critical acclaim. after writing aS NEaR aS I CaN GET in 1962, he began to write short surrealistic plays which were first performed at the Edinburgh Festivals. The world premiere of his first full-length play, GREEN JULIa, was staged at the 1965 Edinburgh Festival by Traverse Theatre productions; it was then transferred to the New arts Theatre in London, where it ran successfully. ableman has continued to write for the theater, television, as well as a range of experimental prose.

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aka Letters To A Lady; Written in collaboration with Gertrude Macauley

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London 1951

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Two university students, one a physiologist, the other an economist, have been sharing an apartment, but now one of them is about to depart for work abroad. They also share an enthusiasm for game-playing, and the most active communication between them is expressed through hilarious fantasy-like skits, replete with outlandish accents and parodied characterisations. The departing roommate also has a sometime mistress, a boozy older woman named Julia, whom he would like to bequeath to his friend, and it is his attempts to set this up that bring on the most wildly funny bits of play-acting-leading on, ultimately, to a suddenly serious yet subtly revealing denoueme

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Edinburgh 1965

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Grove Press, New York, 1966 -

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Inside the mind of a man who is at the same time confined and liberated by his madness

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- 1958

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McPherson 1990 978-0929701042

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